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once-overs

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plural of once-over

as in interrogations

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With many in the party pushing for investigations of potential malfeasance by the administration, party leaders will face tough choices about consequences if those probes do turn up wrongdoing.

— Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 9 Oct. 2026
During the same briefing, the administration also announced investigations into nine universities, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, over alleged misuse of exchange-visitor visas.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of investigations

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The trial began in July and is one of several studies launched to find some protection and another way of at least slowing the outbreak.

— CONSTANT SAME BAGALWA, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2026
However, as some researchers have pointed out, the available studies didn’t assess whether emotions are actually regulated through the chatbot, and therefore conflate distress relief with attachment.

— Pascal Vrticka, Scientific American, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of studies

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Part of it has to do with Tariq, a Pakistani American filmmaker who partially grew up in Texas and has a knack for embedding a dizzying aesthetic into cross-cultural explorations.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Sep. 2026
Hadrian’s Wall is the place of continuing archeological discovery, even after all these years and explorations.

— Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 21 Sep. 2026

Definition of explorations

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Briscoe, for instance, has found that in neural-tube patterning there are two ways of reaching the same place in the landscape — a finding that reconciled previously contradictory observations.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 9 Oct. 2026
Nothing Fielder discovers can top what’s already widely known, so his observations inevitably temper her public image.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of observations

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Melanie Challenger Melanie Challenger writes, researches, and broadcasts on the history of ideas, the history and philosophy of science, and the relationship between humans and the living world.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Aug. 2026
Decades after researches first sequenced the human genome, scientists throughout the world are still working to understand it.

— Gary Skuse, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of researches

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Therapists begin facials with face-scanning wands and other probes, to measure your lipid shield, pigmentation, hydration and elasticity, and then cater their approach to the precise needs of your skin in that moment.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Today, the probes that neuroscientists use to measure the electrical activity of neurons can listen in on the activity of hundreds of neurons from different brain areas at the same time.

— Kimberlee D'Ardenne, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026

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